Feltham Young Offenders' Institution
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HM Young Offender Institution and Remand Centre Feltham, more commonly known as Feltham Young Offenders' Institution, is a prison near Feltham in the southwest of London, England.
The Institution was formed in 1991 as a result of a merger between Feltham Borstal and the Ashford Remand Centre. As of February 2004, the prison had a capacity of 761 prisoners. Unlike some British prisons it is managed directly by Her Majesty's Prison Service rather than management being contracted out to a private firm.
In recent years the Institution has been repeatedly criticised in reports for having a climate of racism amongst some of its officers. The reports follow in the wake of the murder of Zahid Mubarek by his racist cellmate Robert Stewart on the day Mubarek was due to be released.
It is the subject of the Hard-Fi track "Feltham Is Singing Out".
